Rank #1: Ayn Rand’s Optimistic Cruelty with Lisa Duggan

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Sep 27 2019
1hr 53mins
Rank #2: Mike Davis on This Moment

Dan interviews Mike Davis on what the election reveals about this US political moment and the way forward for the Left.
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Nov 13 2020
1hr 21mins
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Rank #3: A History of Neoliberalism with Quinn Slobodian

Live Dig interview in NYC with Yanis Varoufakis on Challenging the New Right-Populism. Saturday December 1, 6pm. The New School's Arnhold Hall at the Theresa Lang Student Center.
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Nov 14 2018
Rank #4: Mike Davis on Coronavirus Politics

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Mar 20 2020
1hr 58mins
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Rank #5: Capitalism with Michael Hardt

Read Dan's essay on the 20th anniversary of the WTO protests in Seattle jacobinmag.com/2019/11/seattle-world-trade-organization-protests-socialism
Read Hardt and Negri reflect on the 20th anniversary of Empire newleftreview.org/issues/II120/articles/empire-twenty-years-on
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Dec 13 2019
2hr 3mins
Rank #6: Our History Is the Future with Nick Estes

Dan's lengthy interview with Nick Estes on his remarkable book Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance. The problem that settler colonialism was repeatedly trying to solve by unleashing such terrific violence—through massacres, by nearly eliminating the buffalo, in reservation confinement, in dominating the Missouri River—was not just indigenous people being in the way but also the existence of a larger relationship between indigenous people and the land, water and animals. The history of resisting this capitalist and colonialist dispossession has endured through the Water Protectors' struggle at Standing Rock—which will, in retrospect, be remembered as a pivotal moment in the global struggle against climate catastrophe.
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Jun 29 2019
2hr 44mins
Rank #7: Race or Class? Bad Question. With Nikhil Pal Singh.

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Sep 05 2018
Rank #8: Bad Objects with Andrea Long Chu and Marissa Brostoff

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Dec 12 2018
Rank #9: Real Estate Capitalism and Gentrification with Samuel Stein

What is gentrification? It isn't just about what was once known as the hipster and is still known as the artist, the telltale warning signs of impending demographic change. It's part of an entire political-economic order that has made real estate global capitalism's most prized asset for storing wealth—one that has helped bend place-based urban governments to the will of mobile, and thus more powerful, capital. Dan interviews Samuel Stein on his book, Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State.
Come to The Dig's Slavery's Hinterlands symposium Thursday through Saturday in Rhode Island: facebook.com/events/661508874305008/
Check out the English transcript of last week's Spanish-language interview with Communist Chilean Mayor Daniel Jadue jacobinmag.com/2019/04/communist-party-chile-left-governance-recoleta
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May 02 2019
Rank #10: Venezuela

Meanwhile, many reactionaries throughout the Americas are pointing to Venezuela as proof that socialism cannot work. What is the correct analysis? What does solidarity with the Venezuelan people mean for today's left? These are all extremely complicated and urgent questions. Today, Dan interviews three experts on Venezuela to help answer them.
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Feb 02 2019
Rank #11: Capitalism and Slavery. Part 1.

Dan conducted six interviews on capitalism and slavery at The Dig's recent Slavery's Hinterlands symposium here in Rhode Island. This first of two episodes begins with historian Linford Fisher, who explains that the English settlement of North America was a settler-colonial project that required genocidally dispossessing indigenous people of their lands. What you might not know is that a central tactic for that dispossession, in New England and Virginia alike, was the threat and actual enslavement of native people, including the widespread practice of forcing native youth to labor in English homes. Then historians Christy Clark-Pujara and Joanne Melish, who pick up where Fisher leaves off: slavery wasn't the South's peculiar institution; it was the bedrock of the northern economy. And finally, historian Emily Owens on sexual labor under slavery: what, Owens' work explores, did slavery and freedom mean for women for whom, in brothels or the home, sex was work? On the next episode, Dan has two more interviews looking at the big picture questions of slavery, capitalism, revolution and colonialism, and an interview with a group of public historians who teach about slavery today.
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May 16 2019
2hr 13mins
Rank #12: End of the Myth with Greg Grandin

Thanks to University of California Press. Check out No Go WorldL How Fear Is Redrawing Our Maps and Infecting Our Politics by Ruben Andersson ucpress.edu/book/9780520294608/no-go-world
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Mar 20 2019
Rank #13: Matt Bruenig Spreads the Wealth Around

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Sep 09 2018
Rank #14: Coronavirus Economics with Grace Blakeley

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Mar 27 2020
1hr 55mins
Rank #15: Single-Payer Now! with Tim Faust

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Dec 20 2019
1hr 36mins
Rank #16: Cyborg Revolution with Donna Haraway

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The documentary Donna Haraway: Story Telling For Earthly Survival is now available to stream on Amazon, iTunes, Vimeo, as well as on DVD via Icarus Films.
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Alyssa's piece on Haraway for n+1: nplusonemag.com/issue-28/reviews/monstrous-duplicated-potent
Sophie Lewis's critique of Haraway and population politics: viewpointmag.com/2017/05/08/cthulhu-plays-no-role-for-me
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The Xenofeminist Manifesto: laboriacuboniks.net
May 09 2019
Rank #17: Coup in Bolivia with Jeff Webber

Read "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Macho Camacho" by Jeff Webber and Forrest Hylton www.versobooks.com/blogs/4493-the-eighteenth-brumaire-of-macho-camacho-jeffery-r-webber-with-forrest-hylton-on-the-coup-in-bolivia
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Nov 28 2019
1hr 59mins
Rank #18: Crashed with Adam Tooze

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Dec 19 2018
Rank #19: Marx’s Eighteenth Brumaire with Dylan Riley

Check out Dan's recent NYT op-ed The Case Against Border Security.
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Feb 20 2019